MacOS – automatic save before “Run in Terminal” in BBEdit

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I am a new BBEdit user, with a long experience as TextWrangler user.
In TextWrangler, I am used at running python scripts with the command "Run in Terminal", and in TextWrangler the default behaviour is to save the file before sending it to the terminal.

I noticed that in BBEdit, v11.1.2, if I give the "Run in Terminal" command for an unsaved file, the "autosave" option is not there, so I end up sending the "temporary file" for execution, which is in a temporary folder, and things "go wrong" (the script is in the wrong directory, and I need to access relative folders paths).

I looked in the preferences, but I didn't find yet where to set as default to save before running the file.

I have also searched with google, but to no avail.

Is it a "hidden" preference, to be given in the command line?

Best Answer

Contact Barebones, the developer's of BBEdit, about recreating this Text Wrangler behaviour in BBEdit.

Barebone's support is at support@barebones.com

They will be able to help.

BBEdit 11 Release Notes

The BBEdit 11 release notes mention the following:

The #! menu has been rearranged, and some behaviors for running #! scripts have been changed, as follows:

  • "Run…" has been changed to "Run with Options…". This brings up a dialog which lets you control what is done with the script output. The options to "Run in Debugger" and "Run in Terminal" have been removed, since you can do that explicitly from the #! menu itself (and scripts run that way don't get their output back into the application anyway).
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